Aryan Khan drug case: Key points of NCB’s response to bail plea

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Wednesday (October 13) presented copies of their replies to the lawyers concerned on bail pleas of Aryan Khan, Arbaaz Merchant, Munmun Dhamecha, Achit Kumar, Shivraj Harijan and others involved in the drug seizure case. A cruise ship off the Mumbai coast. In its reply, the NCB opposed the bail for each of the accused and gave their reasons for the same.

Highlights of NCB’s reply

1) Aryan Khan used to buy drugs from Arbaaz Merchant.

2) According to the evidence found so far during the investigation, Aryan was involved in the purchase and sale of drugs.

3) Accused number 17 Achit Kumar and accused number 19 Shivraj Harijan provided drugs to Aryan and Arbaaz.

4) Aryan and Arbaaz used to spend time together, were close to each other and this is enough to invoke Section 29 of NDPS.

5) According to the investigation, Aryan and Arbaaz went to the cruise party together, it is clear that both went on the cruise with the same intention.

6) Even though very little medicine may have been recovered from some of the accused, their complicity in the conspiracy to commit the crime forms the basis of investigation.

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Narcotics Control Bureau officials have so far arrested 20 accused in this case, while continuous interrogation of 5 suspects including filmmaker and builder Imtiaz Khatri is going on. Aryan Khan was arrested on 3 October. He is presently in judicial custody and lodged in Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai. He had approached the special court for bail after his plea was rejected by a magistrate’s court last week on the ground that he did not have jurisdiction to decide the case.

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